My name is Dominic

Hi guys, my name is Dominic. I live in Okinawa, Japan. I'm married and have three children, 17 (boy), 15 (boy) and 10 (girl). I work in IT and love what I do. It's like I'm playing Super Mario Bros, a video game to me. I am a recovering sex addict, also Christian. I am also diagnosed with General Anxiety Disorder and take 20mg of Lexapro daily. I don't say this to you "treat me" anything different but to help you know what I am and what I'm about. I'm about the truth, to include exposing my own self-hypocrisies, anger, fear, lust, pride, anything like that. I don't judge you but try to relate to you by my own weaknesses as to better understand what is true and what is false. I read the Bible. Jesus is my God, but I don't hate pagans, athiests, or LGBTQI+ or furries or anyone. I love them and I want them to know it and I believe God loves them too. I don't care if you think I'm crazy, I don't care if you think my god is some flying spaghetti monster because there was a time, I turned my back on God, and hated God, but when I was at my rock bottom, I cried to the Lord and He heard me and delivered from from all my fears. I know God from a personal experience. I talk to God every day. I ask God for help to control my anger, learning how to control myself and helping others.

Let me tell you, I am here here to judge you, not here to scrutinize you, I don't care. I just want to be your friend. If I talk 'mean' or seems that way, please know, I talk straight and it comes off as harsh. Here is one example

someone: I'm so glad we evolved from apes
me: I don't think we did

see? that is considered mean to some let me flip it.

me: I'm so glad God mad us
other: No God doesn't exist, I don't believe in that, but we evolved

choice?

I ask myself, why should his/her belief affect me, it's her belief, and has no power over me

choice?

you ask yourself? why does dominic's belief in God affect me? it has no power over me

right?

right

We get into trouble when we "think" we know and understand a person.

I know that from experience.

But yet, you will find me saying some very hard things to hear like this

"I don't like that guy, he's a liar" (talking about some corrupt politician)

am I allowed to say that?
am I allowed to voice my opinion?

I don't know, but if you say "shut up dominic" I"ll shush. ok?

I have a long long story of my own sex addiction
I have a long long story to tell of my old dabblings into the pagan/occult/satanism but that is for another time.

I actually pray for the worst of the worst, for them to repent, for them to wake up, but I know they need a conviction/punishment too (a consequence), I'm thinking of all child abusers, killers, rapists,. I'm not for killing others, but I know our deeds deserve it (hence, the death penalty, if the government does it, for a serial killer, so be it), Do you hate me know? Should I have said something like "we need to learn why they do it, so we need to institutionalize them, the child abuser, and give meds, education" ok I agree, but when does it come to a point when they just want to persist in child abuse, serial killing and raping?

I wish they would repent, but if they don't, they are responsible for their crimes, as any should be. But if someone would lay down their life, to take their place to clear them of their sins, so that in the sight of God (not man) that person is aquitted, then who am I to say anything against God's love?

This is why I'm a Christian and nothing else. I find in the Bible, God is love, God is for the most wicked sinner, IF they want God, and IF they turn. Call me crazy, call me whatever you want, this is my Jesus who saves the most depraved person, can turn a warped/sick/person who can't stop it, into something good and true, not because of the criminal's new life, but because God lives in them now and God is able to help them think different, to love, to say "I am wrong, so wrong, and I give my life to the one who gave His life for me"

That is what I'm about. Do you understand?

Those who misuse God's grace, to make a license to sin, show they have never known, never appreciated God, and only want to use "God" or "religion" as a cover-up for their malicious ways, and Jesus Christ is gonna call out the hypocrites, and offer them a chance, but if they persist, they have already chose to be against Christ and not for him, and to them, they will reap what they sow.

Do you get it?

I'm for destruction all human greed, all human pride, all self-promotion, to hurt others, to make a god out of money, lust, something like that. I'm against all things God calls evil, not what I call evil.

If God hates pride, so do it.
If God doesn't take pleasure in the death of the wicked, so do I not take pleasure in the death of the wicked.
If God says "Love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, then to God, I willingly offer all of me, my body, my mind, my soul, my all.
If God says "Love your neighbor as yourself", I say "Yes Lord" as you wish and pray to help to die to my inner pride, inner selfishness, and give my life because that is exactly what God did for me, Jesus Christ, when He gave His life for me, and showed me how to treat all women with dignity, purity, respect, to love the sinner, to be kind, and gentle (all things I am naturally NOT).

Do you get it?

Do you see what life means to me, and what Jesus wants it to mean for you?

I can't see any other way to live.

Honestly, people brag of their loves, (I have this, I have that)
Honestly, people brag of their gods (my god is like that or like that)

Let me brag a bit now.

My Jesus said this.

"You have heard that it has been said, 'You shall not commit adultery' but I say to you, that if anyone lusts after a women in his heart, he has already committed adultery with her in his heart"

Pause. Think
What was Jesus saying

this.

You think you are good if you simply "not" having sex with others as to say that you are good/holy/, but if you even keep yourself pure in the physical way, yet, in your spirit, you lust after her (porn/online affairs/etc), in your heart, you are not pure but also guilty of a sin and will be held accountable

pause.

Think..

Who on earth? Can say that AND live it?

me? no
you? no
I have watched porn, had affair, abortions, so much so much

I'm guilty so much

let me ask you again

Right now, in your life, who is living that kind of life? in Absolute purity?

Answer? NO ONE.

What does that mean? sin it up, eff the world, let's party til we die?

no way..

it means, we must find the root cause of our issues (sin? what exactly is that?),
it means, we must find love and acceptance from a true real source of love and unconditional love (God is the ONLY one to fit that billet)
it means, we must show mercy to other who are caught in the same sins/issues/drugs/addictions because we in many ways are them and they are us

it means, we must not become proud

now it seems that we are talking about a total live change?

Dominic, do you mean, "fake it until we make it"

Nope. I mean this

"Lord, I am a sinner, I believe I have sinned against you, I trust You love me and are for the sinner and have shown it to be by dying on the cross for my sins, even I deserved death, please please PLEASE have mercy on me, a sinner, and remember me when You enter into Your kingdom, I believe you were buried and rose from the dead, according to the scriptures"

Please God, help me to know You.
Please help us to love others and not think we are better than others.

Listen my friend, I'm not a pastor, preacher or anything, I'm just like you and I know there is a God who loves you and I have seen, known, experienced this, and want to tell you about Jesus, you can easily publicly also know God, by reading His Word, in the Holy Scriptures. Get a Bible, pray and that is talking to God, learn who Your Heavenly Father really is, how much great and goodness He really is, and listen and obey Him, He is FOR You. He sent His Son, to die for you.

When you feel tempted, ask God for help to show you the way out, and run away from it. Learn how to take every thought captive and make it submit to the Lord Jesus Christ by asking God for the Holy Spirit. Jesus said "If you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him. That is for you, and your friends, and family. Get the true riches, get a clean white robe and stand not in your own flith not in your own self-righteousness, but stand, clean, and forgiven in the righteousness of God, that He will give you, and it's His Own Righteousness, not our own, so we don't HAVE to 'do this' and do that, we GET TO, participate in His plan. You are all invited, every single person, "For God so loved the world (you, reader) that He gave His Only Begotten Son that whosoever (you dear reader) believes in Him, shall not perish but have everlasting life" (John 3:16, bible(dot)com)


Love,
Dominic

Hello @dominic Welcome to Forum Services and hope you enjoy your stay!

Thank you @Mati

Hello and welcome. I am sorry to say, but this intro was too long to read.

it's ok. Thank you